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BRANDON, Fla. – A door-to-door solicitor is recovering after being shot multiple times by a man in Hillsborough County<\/a>.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office, someone called 911 around 8 p.m. on Wednesday, reporting a shooting in Providence Townhomes.<\/p>\n When deputies arrived, they said they found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his lower body.<\/p>\n Deputies began rendering aid, and he was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n READ: Venice man accused of chloroforming, killing missing woman told nurse he killed 4: Affidavit<\/a><\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Detectives said the victim and his female co-worker were going door-to-door soliciting telecommunication products and services when Reginald McGee, 38, became verbally aggressive toward the female.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office <\/p>\n McGee physically attacked the victim after he and his co-worker began walking away, according to HCSO.<\/p>\n During the attack, deputies said McGee reached into his waistband, pulled out a gun and started shooting at the victim.<\/p>\n They went on to say McGee chased the victim as he ran and kept shooting until he ran out of ammunition.<\/p>\n Video: Florida man slams Jaguar into school bus, arrested for battery hours later: Deputies<\/a><\/p>\n McGee went back home, and he came out of the house armed with a gun when deputies arrived.<\/p>\n McGee was arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder, aggravated battery great bodily harm or deadly weapon and discharging a firearm in public or on a residential property.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “This was a completely unnecessary escalation that left a man seriously injured simply for doing his job,” said Sheriff Chad Chronister. “When a disagreement turns into gunfire, that is a choice, and it is a criminal one. Our deputies acted quickly to take this suspect into custody, giving residents in this neighborhood peace of mind and preventing further harm.”<\/p>\n The Source: This article was written with information provided by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hillsborough County<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office BRANDON, Fla. – A door-to-door solicitor is recovering after being shot multiple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-163341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-hillsborough","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/vlcsnap-2026-02-20-17h06m41s063.jpg\")
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